Professional Resource
ZERO TO THREE Fellowship Class of 2016-18
We are proud to announce our extraordinary 2016-18 ZERO TO THREE Fellowship Class!
Our new Fellows are 15 accomplished professionals whom were selected through a rigorous review process and represent a diversity of disciplines, sectors, backgrounds, and geographic locations. They bring to the fellowship the passion, will, and influence to advance change in programs, systems, and policies that positively impact the well-being of infants, toddlers, and their families. Each Fellow has a specific vision for change in their professional context that will be accomplished through innovative thinking, collaboration, and partnerships across roles, disciplines, and sectors. The fellowship experience will provide dynamic and challenging opportunities for the Fellows to grow professionally and personally by expanding their knowledge, strengthening skills, broadening their perspective, and establishing lifelong, rewarding relationships.
The members of our 2016-2018 Fellowship Class are:
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Yigit Aksakoglu Country Representative for Turkey
Bernard van Leer Foundation
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Arlae Alston Family Engagement Project Manager
Puente de la Costa Sur
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Clinton Boyd, Jr. Doctoral Student
the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University
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Jane Duer Early Intervention Coordinator & Project Launch Director
Alabama Department of Mental Health
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Nicole Gardner-Neblett Advanced Research Scientist
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
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Andria Goss Project Director
Illinois Department of Children and Family/Erikson Institute
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Sarah Barclay Hoffman Assistant Director
Early Childhood Innovation Network
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Rochelle Matacz President
Australian Association for Infant Mental Health, West Australia (AAIMHI WA)
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Lee McMahon Kelley Senior Program Analyst
Office of Family Readiness Policy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
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Kalpana Miriyala Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Marshall University School of Medicine
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Lana Nenide Executive Director
Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health (WI-AIMH)
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Erin Smeltzer Director
School Readiness Program, Florida Department of Education
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Vincent C. Smith Associate Director
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Kate Wasserman Director of Parent, Infant and Early Childhood (PIEC) Program
Institute for Innovation and Implementation at the University of Maryland School of Social Work
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Catherine Wright Early Childhood Mental Health System Coordinator
Minnesota Department of Human Services
